I published recently a transcript of a radio documentary I had made that explored the question of ‘Who owns culture?’.  Perhaps the most fractious of recent debates around this question has been over ‘Kennewick Man’, an ancient skeleton found on the banks of the Columbia River in America’s Washington State. The  9000-year old skeleton became the focus for two major controversies: What is race? And who owns  history? I tell the story of Kennewick Man in my book Strange Fruit: […]

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